Russian Debutante's Handbook

Title: Russian Debutante's Handbook
Author: Gary Shteyngart
I: 1708125
ISBN: 9781573222136
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 452
Section: Fiction | General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and desires for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow and into uncharted territory.
Taking us from the dreary confines of New York City's Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava-the Eastern European Paris of the nineties-whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" is both a madcap adventure and a serious look at what it means to be an outsider in America, and what it means to be an American.